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So after the tutorial, i came back to think about clearly defining what is public and private and like you said, i decided to change the screen room to be in the public building as well as the living room. What is left on the private building would be all the bedrooms and the bathrooms within them because if i move the bathroom to the public building, everything would be all cluttered in the public building as well as it does not make sense in terms of function for the owner of the house to have to walk to the other building to go to take a shower and then come back to their bedroom to dress up. Since i decided that the screen room for the camera obscura will be used as the camera obscura room and then the next sequence will be for the public to watch the film, i decided to move those film room to the second and the third floor in order for the public to interact more with the house. This will make it more interesting in terms of voyeurism since by this, the people who live in the house has the ability to spy on the public that intrudes their house as well rather than spying on themselves that obviously live in the house. For the first floor, they will see the image projected from the camera obscura. On the second floor, it is the film room for them to watch a scary film. the third floor would be for them to watch a comedy film. the storage room for films would be underground. By giving them different types of films to watch, the voyeurs can see the reaction of the public on those films when they do not know that they are being watched. The public would come in since those film rooms will allow the sound of the public out to the site to drag attention and give hints to people that they can actually come in. This matches how the public building is to show the behaviors of people as a public performance. So the screen room/ film room would be my public component.

3 comments:

etc. said...

Ok, now it's time to draw all this!

The interest of this proposal will mainly come from the way you will design those viewing machines, devices and features.
.. keeping the relations they establish smart and subtle -
And this, is a lot of work!

Nilay Mistry said...

be sure to represent your shophouses within context for some of the drawings. the transparency you are proposing will seem even more powerful when contrasted with the mass of the rest of the city block.

consider details about the spaces you are creating for film viewing. will a room for viewing a comedy match the room for scary movies or will they differ intentionally?

Cake said...

Thank you aj camille and aj nilay for your comments. As the development i did the plan for my model, but now i decided to change it because i find that my form is too simple and only plays with windows and voyeuristic techniques, which i want to develop more. I also want to develop more to make the two buildings and each floor cohesive to each other. So far Im interested in using jali throughout the building or some sort of skin structure. But i will still retain the idea of having voyeuristic views in the private house. But i'm planning to decrease the techniques so that i can be more specific; perhaps using only the techniques present in the movie. The three films from Wong Kar Wai films have the techniques of looking up, looking down, wall blockage, peep holes, and eavesdropping. I will think of new forms and ways to integrate the design into it; however my program and function are done already.